Defense Tech was at a question and answer with the Army’s top buyer, Lt. Gen. Robert Lennox, deputy chief of staff for programs, a couple of weeks back, when he said something that stuck out as counterintuitive. Speaking of Iraq and Afghanistan, he said: “The amount of expenditure of precision indirect fire weapons has not […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
On Tuesday, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will release their new report “AirSea Battle: A Point of Departure,” at an event on the Senate side of the Hill, hosted by Senators Joe Lieberman and John Thune. This is the follow on to an initial paper written by CSBA’s Andrew Krepinevich that examined some […]
Former Defense Tech editor Christian Lowe is embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan through June 1 and sends us this dispatch from FOB Salerno near the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan. American troops fighting along the Pakistan border have shifted their emphasis from interdicting insurgent forces flowing through the porous border to hunting down […]
Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal didn’t give away much on the pending Kandahar offensive in today’s presser at the Pentagon, predicting a “difficult” fight against a “smart” insurgency that constantly probes for openings where it can slip fighters into villages and towns and intimidate the local population through assassinations and “night letters” under the noses […]
The point man in charge of requirements at the Pentagon, vice chair of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Hoss Cartwright, just told the services to “wake up!” at a CSIS sponsored conference in Washington, DC. In the real world, not the fantasy bubble of never ending defense budget increases, there are such things as economic dislocation, […]
